Astrophysics with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Amaro-Seoane, J Andrews, M Arca Sedda… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment
for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address …

The first stars: formation, properties, and impact

RS Klessen, SCO Glover - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The first generation of stars, often called Population III (or Pop III), form from metal-free
primordial gas at redshifts z∼ 30 and below. They dominate the cosmic star-formation …

The assembly of the first massive black holes

K Inayoshi, E Visbal, Z Haiman - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The existence of∼ 109M⊙ supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the first billion years
of the Universe has stimulated numerous ideas for the prompt formation and rapid growth of …

The X–shooter/ALMA Sample of Quasars in the Epoch of Reionization. II. Black Hole Masses, Eddington Ratios, and the Formation of the First Quasars

EP Farina, JT Schindler, F Walter… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present measurements of black hole masses and Eddington ratios (λ Edd) for a sample
of 38 bright (M 1450<− 24.4 mag) quasars at 5.8≲ z≲ 7.5, derived from Very Large …

Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

L Barack, V Cardoso, S Nissanke… - … and quantum gravity, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
70 AIM, UMR 7158, CEA/DRF, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Irfu/Service d'Astrophysique,
Centre de Saclay, FR-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

First Detection of an Overmassive Black Hole Galaxy UHZ1: Evidence for Heavy Black Hole Seed Formation from Direct Collapse

P Natarajan, F Pacucci, A Ricarte… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The recent Chandra-JWST discovery of a quasar in the z≈ 10.1 galaxy UHZ1 reveals that
accreting supermassive black holes were already in place 470 million years after the Big …

Primordial black holes as generators of cosmic structures

B Carr, J Silk - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Primordial black holes (PBHs) could provide the dark matter in various mass windows below
102 M⊙ and those of 30 M⊙ might explain the LIGO events. PBHs much larger than this …

Titans of the early Universe: The Prato statement on the origin of the first supermassive black holes

TE Woods, B Agarwal, V Bromm, A Bunker… - Publications of the …, 2019 - cambridge.org
In recent years, the discovery of massive quasars at has provided a striking challenge to our
understanding of the origin and growth of supermassive black holes in the early Universe …

A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): JWST Reveals a Filamentary Structure around az= 6.61 Quasar

F Wang, J Yang, JF Hennawi, X Fan… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first results from the JWST program A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos
In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE). This program represents an imaging and spectroscopic …

Transition of the initial mass function in the metal-poor environments

S Chon, K Omukai, R Schneider - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We study star cluster formation in a low-metallicity environment using three-dimensional
hydrodynamic simulations. Starting from a turbulent cloud core, we follow the formation and …